Schedules

• 12:00 am
  All Things Considered Libya's Power Struggle In Libya, guns are still everywhere and the elected leadership is struggling to rule as militias use guns and intimidation when they don't get their way. Most recently they surrounded two ministries and state television to force through a political isolation law that bars former members of Gaddafi's regime from government posts.
• 1:00 am
  This Week in Northern California A Church Divided Is homosexuality compatible with Christianity? This question is debated fiercely in "A Church Divided," a television documentary narrated by Peter Coyote and hosted by Scott Shafer. It takes viewers behind the scenes of the United Methodist Church's global convention in Tampa, Florida. At stake is the church's official policy on gays and lesbians. Progressive Methodists want to amend church doctrine declaring homosexuality incompatible with Christian teaching, but conservative Methodists want to retain the church's stance calling homosexuality a sin. As the U.S. Supreme Court stands poised to decide the future of same-sex marriage, "A Church Divided" is a timely examination of a complex and divisive issue.
• 1:30 am
  Washington Week Combating Terrorism, IRS Fallout, Paying for Disaster Relief and Immigration Reform In a major address on Thursday, the president unveiled new guidelines for combating terrorism and the administration's use of drones in that fight. This came on the heels of the new disclosure that four Americans had been killed in drone strikes since 2009. He also renewed his call to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The program discusses what the president's new strategy means. Also, controversies continued to swirl throughout Washington this week, particularly around the IRS and its extra scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. The devastating tornado in Oklahoma again put the issue of federal disaster relief front and center this week, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has passed and sent to the full Senate a comprehensive immigration reform bill that's sure to stir up controversy on Capitol Hill.
• 2:00 am
  Commonwealth Club Former Member of Congress Barney Frank First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank gained a reputation as a forceful legislator and a pragmatic politician whose intellect and sense of humor has made him one of the most influential and colorful figures in Washington. In 1987, Frank became the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as openly gay, and in 2012 he married his longtime partner, becoming the nation's first congressman in a same-sex marriage while in office. KQED's Scott Shafer speaks with Frank about his decades in political life, his ideas about current economic realities and his ambitions for the future.
• 3:00 am
  Inside Europe The End of Swiss Secrecy? The program asks: How much longer can the Swiss maintain banking secrecy? Also, a suicide in Notre Dame highlights the French divide over gay marriage, an operatic twist to Spanish austerity, and the wealthy rev up in Copenhagen.
• 4:00 am
  It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council) The Challenges and Choices of Climate Change: A United Nations Perspective Climate change presents the global community with one of its greatest challenges -- and one of its greatest opportunities. The choices we make today will determine the future state of the environment, for good or ill. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, discusses her unique perspective on what changes will transform the world of tomorrow and how we can make a positive impact.
• 5:00 am
  Weekend Edition
MORNING
• 7:00 am
  Weekend Edition

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• 9:00 am
  Weekend Edition
• 10:00 am
  Car Talk Click and Clack tackle the tougher questions of the automobile world.
• 11:00 am
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  This American Life
• 1:30 pm
  Radio Specials Radiolab Who Am I? -- The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. But the program discusses how neurologists lead the charge on profound questions like "How does the brain make me?" The show stares into the mirror with Dr. Julian Keenan, reflects on the illusion of selfhood with British neurologist Paul Broks, and contemplates the evolution of consciousness with Dr. V. S. Ramachandran.
• 2:30 pm
  Moyers & Company Going to Jail for Justice The program speaks with Tim DeChristopher about why he spent nearly two years in prison in the name of environmental justice. And Gretchen Morgenson discusses how banks are still too big to fail and too big to trust.
• 3:30 pm
  BBC World Service
• 4:00 pm
  Living On Earth
• 5:00 pm
  All Things Considered
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  A Prairie Home Companion Hear them Howl The program airs a live broadcast performance from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, with special guests harmonizing duo The Milk Carton Kids, and singers Aoife O'Donovan and Heather Masse. Also, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman, harmonicist Howard Levy joins The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
• 8:30 pm
  Selected Shorts Convergence Estelle Parsons reads "Everything That Rises Must Converge," by Flannery O'Connor; and Mary Stuart Masterson reads "Jesus is Waiting," by Amy Hempel.
• 9:00 pm
  This American Life
• 10:00 pm
  The Moth Radio Hour Goats, Cops and Haircuts A prisoner in a small town lock-up gets sprung on a promise; a man desperate for a cure for depression travels to Africa to try a tribal remedy; and novelist/screenwriter Richard Price -- "Clockers," "Lush Life," "The Wire" -- gets a lesson in interrogation in the back of a NYC cop car.
• 11:00 pm
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.